President Joe Biden has recently been the subject of much scrutiny, with some even going so far as to suggest he is a bad human being.
While this may be true in terms of his policies and decisions, it doesn’t take into account other aspects that make him an undesirable leader.
Recently, The Heritage Foundation Vice President Roger Severino posted on X about his experience with Biden when he was a junior editor for the Harvard Journal on Legislation from 1999-2000.
Severino’s post revealed that he had an opportunity to cite and check an article submitted by then-Senator Joe Biden and found plagiarism throughout the piece.
That’s when I noticed that a certain turn of phrase in an opinion sounded oddly familiar even though it was my time reading it. So I turned back to Biden’s article, and there it was. He had lifted language straight out of a SCOTUS opinion, changed a couple words, and called…
— Roger Severino (@RogerSeverino_) September 4, 2023
He noted several examples such as phrases lifted straight from court opinions without quotation marks or attributions to their proper source.
Severino also pointed out what is known as mosaic plagiarism, which involves taking bits and pieces from different sources and passing them off as original content without proper attributions or citations. To make matters worse, this wasn’t the first instance of plagiarism attributed to Biden, he had already been caught before Severino’s discovery.
“Cite checking involves formatting case citations under highly prescribed rules and searching Westlaw to make sure the cases haven’t been overruled or superseded. Because I was interested in the article’s topic (civil rights) I read a bunch of the cited cases all the way through,” Severino began.
“That’s when I noticed that a certain turn of phrase in an opinion sounded oddly familiar even though it was my time reading it. So I turned back to Biden’s article, and there it was. He had lifted language straight out of a SCOTUS opinion, changed a couple words, and called them his own. There were no quote marks and no footnote or anything else attributing the court as the source,” Severino said.
Yes, Biden’s understanding of plagiarism appears to be on par with that of a lazy grade school student who forgot his paper was due tomorrow. It can’t be understated that this is a sitting…
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